Awesome to see Fortress mentioned, even if it is about its untimely demise :( There was a lot to like about it, and how ahead of its time it was: safe parallel

Awesome to see Fortress mentioned, even if it is about its untimely demise :( There was a lot to like about it, and how ahead of its time it was: safe parallelism, a powerful type system, extensible syntax; but ultimately its ambition and overall weirdness in how it looked made it hard to digest.